Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-02-12

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/ forming marriage ceremony to make the
/ return IN thirty days. ''lf return be made, y
said County Clerk Wuihs 81 shall refuse 70
/ receive or record it until have advice from
I the state attorney that it is proper to do So"
! The last of the Indians sentenced to the
/ pen. Tertiary for complication IN the recsnt
rebellion are 10 be released. Big Bear, the
chief OF the rebeilious Crees, who ransaoked
l Fort Pitt and massacred ten white people at
/ Frog Lake, with three OF his braves, Will be
released from the Stony Mountain prison
after serving ont sixteen months of the ten
/ years sentence The Other prisoners were
/ pardoned previously.
/ The river at Cincinnati has reached Sc feet
/ and one inch, which was a rise in nine
/ hours Of i've inches, with a cloudy sky and
| the thermometer above 81. There Is still
ground for the apprehension Of a rise, and
/ It Is now the cause Of serious inconvenience
/ to railroads and to river transportation, be-
sides interfering with many manufacturers
on the river front. At Nashville, Tenn, the
/ Cumberland river Is rising slowly. The low
/ places IN the city are being troubled with
I back water, and many families are prepar-
| ing to move out.
A fire partly destroyed the rooms of the
/ Merchants club, in st. Louis, No. the fire
| originated from a defective hue in the
/ laundry. North OF the laundry was situated
| the servants hall, where ten servants
were asleep The matrOn aWak-
ned them and tried to lead them down the
unanner was cut on by the flames, and it
was necessary for them to wait for the ar
rival OF the hook and ladder companies.
/ When the latter arrived the fireman took
| charge of the servants and carried them
I through a trap door to the roof, then down
! ladders TO the ground. Several of the girls
! IN their fright attempted TO jump from the
windows but were restrained, and all were
/ rescued without injury. The pastry cook,
l who occupied a room in the third floor,
I jumped from the window, but alightsd upon
/ the balcony few feet away and escaped
with broken ankle The ire was soon
| quenched after the fremen had saved all the
| inmates of the building. The loss amounts
70 only $500, which is fully covered by in
suraDce.
Before the committee investigating the
I Summit county intirmary, at Akron, Ohio,
] George keck eZ-sup erIntendent OF the IN
/ 8 -Ls department, testified that it had been
I la duty 70 W---eu tee insane people. When
l H. Wcs - WOrK IL the fields they cared for
] themselves. He gave the patients baths.
/ - washed the females, as we'll as the
males" he said. An insane woman kept
| the door between the female and male de-
/ partments OF the 'craZy house" He told
/ OF two insane girls who had given birth to
children IN the institution He said he
knew that male paupers went into the rooms
/ of the females.
The president has received letter a from
I Hon. o. N Clay, of Kentucky, calling at
] Le4LlO4 70 a report LllAL q cargo OF EuBLlsl
Australian rabbits Is at sea bound for the
/ United States. He states that he has made
| domestic 1--we stock OF all kinds a study, and
/ that it would b. better TO have pleurO- pneu-
mOnia, small pOI and cholera spread OVeI
[ the United States than to suffer the rgYagei
which will result from the importation o.
these rabbits. The matter was referred K
the treasury department. One of the OH
oials Of that department said, that as there
Is no law TO prevent the importation OF tht
rabbits the matter will be laid before thi
committee on ways and means for such &C
ton as may be deemed necessary.
Indian couriers arrived at Choteau Mont.
from the BlackfOOt agency, after a hare
struggle through the blizzard They have
been 5nOWDOund at Chouteau, with the th6r
mOm5ter 40 degrees below zero. There i
such a scarcity Of wood in ChOuteau tina
fences and unOccupied holses Will be burneS
# the storm continues. SIX TO eight thou
sand cattle are strung along the lection
suffering greatly for food at Fort Benton
there is a fuel famine, with the citizens
burning fences and OuthOuses. They have
not enough flour and cOaltO last q fortnight
At AssinaDOlne the Thermometer registered
81 below zero. The missing ChOuteau cOacl
reached Sua river at last. sixty dead cattl
were found II GlendlVe. Each blizzard
seems more terrible and severe than its pre-
| decessOr. The storm between jamestown
I and Fargo, Dakota, has been worse than an!
! IN the history of the country. The ther
mOmeter has ranged % and 30 degrees below
billiards are raging. A train from the cas-
with four engiD 3 was unable to make it
way through the snow drifts, and numerOu
settlers are reported lost on the prairies.
The Chicago NetUs says member of dis
, trict assembly No. "A, received an impOrtan
circular from the strikers in New York call
! ing upon Chicago WOrkmen to be in reRdi
/ ness when help is required. "Help," tn
knights said, "means material as well a
, physical help" and then the New York strk
may soon involve Chicago.
3 It is reported that the Chicago, Burling
8 ton and NJ shern road has fully determines
? to build line west Of the Missouri rive
into the heart of Dakota.
Mrs. John A. Logan ls to visit Chicag
b soon to inspect the sites rendered for tn
generals monument. She intends to hav
. the final ceremonies on Decoration day.
dispatch from MiIez City, Montana re
ports the cattle scattering On the ranges O
! crOWding to the rivers for water.
3 A bill has been introduced IN the DakOt
3 Legislature appropr1atlng $l5O,OOO to pun
2 crops were destroyed by drought last year
Two shocks of earthquake were recent
Z experienced thrQ bout central Illinois an
Indiana. The pc 5ple of OwatOnna. Mime
4 sofa, were startled by thunder and Hghtnin
J lasting an hour, with mercury below zero.
Q The commissioners of agriculture ser
7 Professor Webster, OF Purdue university, {
: the sWamps of Mississippi aud Louisiana {
= study the habits OF the buffalo gngt.